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Urologists Weigh in on Prostate Biopsy Testing
Findings of a newly-released study claim to support a 10-to 12-core standard of care
By Joseph Burns
| From the Volume XX No. 3 - March 4, 2013 Issue
Predicting the End of Fee-for-Service Medicine
Palmetto's Prostate Biopsy Policy Removed after Talks with CMS
CEO SUMMARY: Based on an impressive number of 4,230,129 vials collected from 437,937 biopsies, the new study is expected to add fuel to the fire of the ongoing debate about the appropriate number of prostate biopsies physicians should collect and refer to pathology labs for cancer testing. The researchers compared the number of prostate biopsies sent to a national reference laboratory with the number collected by urologists and self-referred to their own in-office pathology labs.
UNDER ATTACK FROM MANY QUARTERS because of alleged patterns of utilization from their in-office pathology labs, researchers collaborated with the Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) to conduct their own study into this matter. The results, endorsed by three urology professional associations, were announced last month.
If numbers matter, then the study, titled "Utilization and cancer detection by U.S. prostate biopsies (2005-2011)," should have credibility. It involved 4.2 million specimens collected from 440,000 prostate biopsies.
The study's findings were presented at a poster session during a symposium conducted last month in Orlando, Florida, by the American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers.
In their abstract of the study, the authors boldly concluded, "The increased cancer detection rate correlated significantly with the increased number of specimens examined. Segregation of prostate biopsy cores into 10-12 unique specimen vials has been adopted by urologists across sites of service and can be considered the de facto national standard of care."
At the heart of the matter is the 20-year debate over what number of prostate biopsy cores represent a standard of care that contributes to optimal diagnostic accuracy. Community pathologists, national pathology lab companies, and urologists have all weighed in at different times on this issue. The debate has often been rancorous because of the differing opinions.
"Identifying the proper number of cancer appropriately is a patient care issue that is at the heart of the dispute," stated Deepak A. Kapoor, M.D., in an exclusive interview with THE DARK REPORT. A board-certified urologist, Kapoor is President of the Large Urology Group Practice Association, and Chairman and CEO of Integrated Medical Professionals (IMP), in Melville, New York.
Integrated Medical Professionals is a multispecialty practice serving Long Island, parts of New York City, and Westchester and Rockland counties in New York. One of the largest practices of its kind in the United States, IMP runs one of the nation's largest in-office pathology laboratories. It has 106 physicians and six multi-purpose outpatient treatment facilities.
At the 2013 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium last month in Orlando, Florida, Kapoor and other experts on this issue presented research they conducted to assess the positive biopsy rate and core sampling pattern in patients. The researchers collected data on prostate biopsies from a national reference laboratory and from pathology laboratories integrated into urology group practices. The research produced two significant results, Kapoor said.
Number of Specimen Vials
"The first significant result involved the relationship between positive biopsy rates and the number of specimen vials per biopsy (sv/b)," observed Kapoor. "In a subsequent analysis of similar data, our research team hopes to determine the appropriate number of specimen vials per biopsy needed to identify cancer in prostate patients.
"We believe our study is the largest of its kind ever done," he declared. "It involved more than 2,000 urologists who collected 437,937 biopsies and 4.2 million cores over six years."
In addition to Kapoor, the researchers included three of his IMP colleagues: Carl A. Olsson, M.D., Lattimer Professor and Chairman of Urology, emeritus, at the Columbia University Medical Center; and two pathologists, Savvas E. Mendrinos, M.D., and Ann E. Anderson, M.D. Also participating and providing data from a national lab company was David G. Bostwick, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Bostwick Laboratories in Uniondale, New York.
The researchers collected data on the total number of specimen vials submitted per prostate biopsy and the final diagnosis for each case from urologists and urology practices referring samples to a national reference laboratory (NRL). Over the same period, they also collected similar data from urology practices with in-house laboratories performing global pathology services.
Positive Biopsy Rates
For each year studied, the positive biopsy rate and number of specimen vials per biopsy were calculated in aggregate and separately for each site of service, according to an abstract presented at the symposium.
The results showed that from 2005 to 2011, 437,937 biopsies were submitted in 4.2 million vials (meaning 9.4 specimen vials per biopsy or sv/b). The overall positive biopsy rate of 40.3% was identical at both the NRL and in-office pathology labs, the abstract said. Interestingly, the results showed urologists tended to collect more specimens in the last three years of the study, when the sv/b rate increased sharply from a mean of 8.8 during 2005 to 2008 to 10.3 from 2009 to 2011, the researchers reported.
"The reason urologists collected more specimens per biopsy over the last three years studied than they did in the previous four years resulted from changes in urologists' practice patterns," explained Kapoor. "This is after they saw a correlation between a positive biopsy rate and sv/b.
"In 2005, the average number of cores per biopsy sent to the NRL was 7.2 cores, and the positive biopsy rate was 38%," he continued. "By 2011, the number of cores per biopsy was about 10 to 11 cores, and the positive biopsy rate was 42.5%.
"When doing a prostate biopsy, the goal is to optimize the yield while minimizing costs and complications," added Kapoor. "Therefore, it is significant that there was a near linear correlation between the number of biopsy cores collected and the positive biopsy rate.
"When the physician collects seven to eight biopsy cores, the positive cancer rate is about 38%," he noted. "The collection of 10 to 11 cores is associated with positive cancer rates of about 41% to 42%.
"That is a difference of about 10%, which is significant in terms of patient care because it may help us identify the appropriate rate of biopsy specimens to collect," Kapoor explained.
"This issue will be the subject of another study," he said. "Through extrapolation, we want to determine that a specific number optimizes the yield in terms of positive biopsy versus cores collected. I believe that number will almost certainly be somewhere between 10 and 12."
More Research Needed
Kapoor pointed out that there was a second significant result from the study. This result involved the number of specimens sent to the national reference laboratory compared with the number of specimens reviewed at in-office laboratories. "From 2009 to 2011, the sv/b rate for samples sent to the NRL was 10.0, which was statistically identical to the rate of 10.6 sv/b done at in-office labs. The notion that physician ownership drives utilization of pathology services is not sustainable since positive biopsy rates as well as numbers of sv/b are so similar across sites of service," Kapoor said.
Research by Kapoor and colleagues was reported only in abstract form at the symposium. But a peer-reviewed medical journal is reviewing the full study and Kapoor hopes the full manuscript will be published soon.
Battling Studies over Biopsy Utilization Rates
FOR PATHOLOGISTS AND LAB EXECUTIVES watching this ongoing battle over what number of cores is appropriate for prostate cancer testing, the release of this study by three national urology associations is the urologists' turn at bat.
This study, more than 10 times larger and covering over twice as long an interval, is designed to answer the findings of a study published last year in the journal Health Affairs. Titled, "Urologists' Self- Referral For Pathology Of Biopsy Specimens Linked To Increased Use And Lower Prostate Cancer Detection," the Health Affairs article reported that self-referring urologists billed Medicare for 4.3 more specimens per prostate biopsy (s/pb) when compared with the adjusted mean of six s/pb that non-self-referring urologists sent to independent pathology providers—a difference of almost 72%.
In Health Affairs, the study authors wrote that, "Additionally, the regression-adjusted cancer detection rate in 2007 was 12 percentage points higher for men treated by urologists who did not self-refer. This suggests that financial incentives prompt self-referring urologists to perform prostate biopsies on men who are unlikely to have prostate cancer. These results support closing the loophole that permits self-referral to 'in-office' pathology laboratories."
The Health Affairs study had its critics who pointed out that the funding for the research had been provided by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA), two organizations which represent those pathologists who would prefer to see the in-office pathology laboratories owned by specialty physicians go away.
As well, there were criticisms about the Medicare data sets chosen by the study's author, as well as criticisms about the design and the methodology of the study itself.
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Charges of violent crimes in Memphis can bring severe penalties. The mere accusation of a crime such as assault can lead the accused's community to jump to false conclusions, but the court system does allow any accused the opportunity to present their defense and to have the case against them judged on its merits.
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Mulberry Man Pleads Guilty To Incest, Sexual Assault
A Mulberry man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexual assault and incest involving a female relative in Crawford County Circuit Court.
Gary Wayne Morse Jr., 38, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of incest, in exchange for 20 years in prison on the first sexual-assault count and 30 years suspended on the remaining counts, to run consecutively to the prison sentence. He received a concurrent 10-year suspended sentence on the incest charge.
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If you need to blow the cobwebs away after a summer spent indoors, you can't do much better than Jersey. This is a little island with a big spirit, and it's just a short flight from most major UK cities, making it an ideal place for a refreshing post-lockdown getaway. Peaceful harbour towns, hidden coves, and sweeping beaches make social distancing far easier than on the mainland, and even a short break is enough to restore the senses and turn little moments into lasting memories.
The island has been ready to welcome back visitors since the start of July, and direct flights are now running again from London (Gatwick, Heathrow, and Luton), Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, and Southampton. Things are a little different now: quieter and safer, with plenty of new measures in place to ensure the wellbeing of you, your loved ones, and the island community.
Late summer is quiet enough that you can head off the beaten path and live like a local, whiling away the days with beach BBQs, outdoor dining, wild swimming, and picnics packed with local produce supplied by the island's finest caterers. Visitors later this year will be rewarded with an explosion of rich autumn colours, quiet coves bathed in golden light, a good number of pubs with open fires, clear skies for star-gazing, and the rare magic of exploring a ruined castle in the autumn mist.
Those champing at the bit for some last-minute sun will need to adhere to new safety guidelines to travel over the next few weeks, but as long as you remain sensible, the island is yours to explore:
Take a free Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) COVID-19 test on arrival in Jersey airport, then stick to hiring a car and dining outdoors. Results are normally processed in 24-36 hours. This option is recommended if you are hiring a car during your holiday, as you're discouraged from using public transport until a negative test result is returned, or
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Here are our favourite ways to savour a short island break in Jersey, all of which will give you the peace of mind that you're staying safe and helping local communities.
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Not yet confident enough to dine in a restaurant? Jersey National Park has partnered with Jersey Hospitality to launch #picnicinthepark, a unique project designed to support local businesses and encourage visitors to explore the island's pristine countryside. Independent cafés and restaurants are creating pre-packed picnic baskets full of local seasonal produce, which you order in advance and take away to your favourite hidden spot on the island.
Large towns such as St Helier have plenty of al fresco dining options and a continental-style café culture that makes social distancing simple. We recommend dropping by Relish, a popular local delicatassen that serves fresh baguettes and luxury pâtés that are best savoured on a bench by the sea shore.
Visit in the next few months to wander the atmospheric ramparts and ruins without the crowds
With smaller crowds, the island's natural beauty can really take centre stage. Visit Jersey has created five self-guided road trips that you can download for free to learn about the myths and legends of the island's rugged interior. You'll feel the lick of salt wind on your skin on dramatic coastal headlands and hear the crunch of scarlet leaves under your feet as you wander country lanes, hopping between sights like Devil's Hole, Witches' Rock, and the Bathing Pool of the Fairies.
Autumn visitors can enjoy a self-guided walk through the Forgotten Forest Arboretum, which is the best place to see the fall colours, while the island's more famous heritage sights are also far more atmospheric without the crowds. Don't miss the chance be one of the select few wandering round Mont Orgueil, Elizabeth Castle, or the windswept lighthouse at La Corbière.
Grab some catch-of-the-day seafood and have a BBQ on the beach
It is impossible to resist the pull of the sea in Jersey: the coast is never more than a 10-minute drive away, and there's little that's more photogenic than a sunset barbecue in the golden light of late summer. Faulkner Fisheries has outside tables on the sun-warmed rocks of the headland, with sweeping views across the sands at St Ouen's Bay, and families can beachcomb for shells and sea glass while savouring al fresco lobster and oysters. Pods of wild dolphins are a common sight just beyond the breakers, and keen surfers can head out on a guided Surfari with Laneez, a legendary local surf school that can help you find the best spots to catch a wave as well as taking care of transport and board hire.
Get a taste of history in a cosy pub garden, with heritage ciders made to a 200-year-old recipe
Cider is best enjoyed in the sunshine, so it is fortunate that temperatures in Jersey remain balmy well into autumn. Though nowadays the island is better known for its potatoes, cider was once its main export, and Jersey still celebrates its apple-growing heritage with a melee of soft sparkling ciders from local orchards. Recipes use hand-picked local apples and nothing but, distilled and fermented with vintage machinery, and the resulting beverages are distributed to pubs and farm shops across the island. Tip back a pint or two in a pub beer garden, where tables are well spaced out and new measures are in place to ensure your safety.
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Over the past few months, Britain has fast become a nation of stargazers, as clearer skies, less light pollution, and the need to slow down and take stock have all encouraged us to look to the night sky to uncloud our minds. Jersey is one of the best places in the UK to see the Milky Way, so we recommend taking a blanket up to the rugged hills of the north coast, where you can set up camp at Groznez, a romantic clifftop ruin that's now a stellar spot for stargazing. Plenty of cosy cottages dot the surrounding countryside, with incredible views stretching right across the Channel.
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People who enjoy weed 'edibles' could have their buzz ruined by a potentially deadly heart attack.
That's the warning from doctors who said eating cannabis is 'a major unrecognised risk'.
A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology has questioned the belief that ganja is 'the safest recreational drug' which carries more health benefits than risks.
The research reveals the tragic tale of a 70-year-old man with stable coronary artery disease who decided to munch on a pot-infused lollipop.
This psychedelic sweetie proved too much for the pensioner, who suffered a serious heart attack.
Although the OAP had enjoyed a puff or two in his youth, nothing had prepared him for the strength of modern, legalised cannabis which has vastly more THC than weed smoked in the 1960s hippy era.
He was also unfamiliar with the delayed effects of eating weed, which can take several hours to kick in.
It's believed the trip was so intense it put 'unexpected strain on his body from anxiety and fearful hallucinations caused by the unusually large amount of THC he ingested'.
'Marijuana can be a useful tool for many patients, especially for pain and nausea relief,' said Alexandra Saunders, MD, from Dalhousie University.
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Q: grails remoting plugin - always 404? I'm trying to expose a remote interface to a spring web application, and I'm having issues, always getting 404. What's wrong with my setup below?
Grails:
services - package mypackage
class RemoteUserService implements RemoteUserServiceInterface {
    static expose = ['httpinvoker']

    User findUser(String userId) {
        return User.findByUserId(userId);
    }
}

src/groovy/mypackage
class RemoteUserService implements RemoteUserServiceInterface {
    static expose = ['httpinvoker']

    User findUser(String userId) {
        return User.findByUserId(userId);
    }
}

Spring:
mypackage
public class MyController extends AbstractController {
    RemoteUserServiceInterface remoteUserService
}

appContext
<bean id="viewController" class="mypackage.MyController">
    <property name="remoteUserService" ref="remoteUserService"/>
</bean>

<bean id="remoteUserService" class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean">
    <property name="serviceUrl" value="http://localhost:8080/grails-app-name/httpinvoker/RemoteUserService"/>
    <property name="serviceInterface" value="mypackage.RemoteUserServiceInterface"/>
</bean>

A: You need to define a UrlMapping of
"$controller/$action?/$id?" {}
or else the plugin won't work correctly.

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WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, members of the House Financial Services Committee voted to advance H.R. 4519 to repeal the Cardin-Lugar Provision (Section 1504) of the Dodd-Frank Act. Cardin-Lugar requires oil, gas, and mining companies listed on US stock exchanges to report the payments they make to US and foreign governments for access to natural resources.
This is the latest in a string of attempts by lawmakers to end US leadership in global efforts to combat corruption. In February, President Trump signed H.J. Res. 41 to roll back the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) rule that implemented Section 1504. House lawmakers next set their sights on Dodd-Frank reforms and passed the Financial CHOICE Act (H.R. 10), including a targeted repeal of Section 1504 in April. The Department of the Treasury recommended repeal of Section 1504, both the SEC's implementing rule and the law, in a report issued in October. In early November, the Department of the Interior officially withdrew the United States as an implementing country of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global transparency framework for the natural resource extraction sector.
(2) Analysts and investors agree that opacity in the corruption-prone oil, gas, and mining sector is damaging to capital markets. US listed extractive companies have experienced massive share price drops due to corruption scandals. Section 1504 provides investors with critical information for assessing risk in a challenging sector with positive impacts for companies that benefit from increased investor confidence and certainty. The increased transparency resulting from this provision has been estimated to lower the cost of capital for covered US-listed companies by $6.3 billion to $12.6 billion.
(3) Corruption, secrecy, and government abuse have catalyzed conflict, instability, and violent extremist movements globally: Corruption and mismanagement of natural resource revenues, can breed discontent and resentment, and, ultimately, violence and conflict. The terrorist groups currently posing the gravest threats to the United States and its allies have taken root in highly fragile countries or regions that suffer from corruption, high poverty and inequality, poor service delivery, and low quality of life for ordinary citizens. Five US-listed companies operating in Libya suffered shut-in production of more than $17 billion between 2011 and 2014 as a result of violence linked to corruption.
Transparency of oil, gas, and mining company payments to governments are key to battling corruption and bribery: In resource-rich but economically poor countries, natural resource revenues can be lost to fraud, corruption, wasteful spending, and military adventurism. The Cardin-Lugar Provision brings these payments to light, showing citizens how much revenue their governments received for granting companies access to natural resource wealth. This will empower citizens to pressure their governments to spend the revenues responsibly.
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Q: Twitter streaming API not getting all retweets I'm using the streaming API to follow a specific user id, and I'm able to stream without any issues. However, when I compare all streamed tweets collected in one day to the ones collected with the rest API it seems that the stream API missed some retweets, i.e. tweets from the user id that somebody else retweeted.
I would've expected tweets from the rest API to be missing due to deleted content, but I can't understand why there would be missing tweets from the streaming.
I checked and I'm not hitting the rate limit (all tweets collected throughout the day are less than 200), the connection wasn't interrupted, I tried different days, and it is always around 25% missing retweets. No other types of tweets are missing.
Any help is much appreciated!!
class StreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

    def __init__(self, output_file=sys.stdout):
        super(StreamListener,self).__init__()

    def on_status(self, status):
        with open('tweets.json', 'a') as tf:

            json.dump(status._json, tf)

            tf.write('\n')

        print(status.text)

    def on_error(self, status_code):
        if status_code == 420:
            return False

stream_listener = StreamListener()
stream = tweepy.Stream(auth=api.auth, listener=stream_listener)
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OPC: The Industrial IoT Protocol That Matters
by Rasika Joshi
Posted: Aug 15, 2019
The foundation of an IoT infrastructure depends on how well the systems interface with each other on a plant-wide basis to interchange information safely and constantly.
IoT (https://www.hiotron.com/) is all about such platforms, devices, protocols, etc.
Recent technological developments, however, address these hurdles to smart factory modification, helping companies get connected to the cloud to control data and devices, obtain insights and hold machine-learning abilities.
OPC (Open Platform Communication) is one of the most broadly used standards for this. We can say that OPC defines the communication of real-time plant data between control devices from different manufacturers.
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What is Open Platform Communication?
OPC is a series of standards and descriptions for Industrial Automation. It describes a protocol for real-time transmission with in-plant having various control devices from different manufacturers.
OPC which now used was originally called Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control, which depends on OLE, COM, DCOM technology is planned as a bridge for Windows-based application and process control hardware.
It is a machine to the machine communication protocol for the Industrial Automation Industry.
Generally it works as follows:
An OPC server describes a set of variables within a directory tree-like hierarchy creating namespaces. Each variable has various datatype such as an integer, Boolean, real, string and a default value.
One of many OPC clients attach to the OPC server through a TCP based binary protocol. The clients can read and write the OPC variables supplied by the server. Clients can also examine OPC variables for modifications so that you don't have to survey the variables. In code, this is usually done by submitting a recall function that gets performed when the observed variable changes.
OPC Necessity:
Before OPC came into the scenario, each OEM vendor had applications using its own drivers and were keeping data in a complete data paths. This created a group of problems for Manufacturers since every vendor produced their own data and eventually they were not able to utilize these data for creating reports.
They had to create custom solutions from these various vendors for creating reports. There was little combination possible since data was locked in an exclusive format. Data were locked in various PLC model, HMIs, CNC machines, ERPs, etc. Also, the plants overlooked the challenge of modify management whenever a new system was added.
OPC was established as a solution to solve these concerns rather than creating a new product to regulate technology with no exclusive format and to facilitate general connectivity.
OPC UA:
The current description of OPC is OPC UA (Unified Architecture) by the OPC Foundation. It covers a lot more functionality than what is reported above. It's a unified successor to different OPC Classic descriptions like OPC DA, A&E and HDA.
If you want to get started with OPC UA evolution you can use one of the many client and server SDKs and toolkits for different programming languages. OPC UA is a standard that allows the open connectivity, interoperability, safety and reliability of industrial automation devices and systems. OPC UA is generally identified as the essential communication and data modeling technology for the Industry 4.0 initiative.
It works with various software platforms is completely scalable and due to its flexibility it has been universally adopted across various industries.
The OPC UA standard is driven by the OPC base, a non-profit organization with the aim of multi-vendor, multi-platform, safe and definitive interoperability. Microsoft has a long-lasting partnership with the OPC Foundation.
The connection between has resumed across several essential initiatives, involving support for platform-neutral OPC UA across IoT offerings, including Azure IoT Suite and the common Windows Platform built into Windows 10 IoT.
Recently, Microsoft presented a.NET Standard mention to the stack to the OPC Foundation GitHub open-source.
Microsoft is also the cloud vendor that utilizes both OPC UA client-server connections and the new OPC UA publish-subscribe connections all the way to the cloud and back.
Which means Microsoft is in a typical position to make the rich OPC UA data model, i.e. the semantic representation of the machines, available in the cloud for allowing services there that so far were only possible on-premises.
OPC UA replaces the OPC Classic protocol, retaining all the usefulness of its predecessor.
Because OPC Classic was constructed upon the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), a Microsoft transmission technology, OPC Classic was jumped to Windows, which became growingly restricting.
OPC UA is fully interoperable across the various operating systems utilized within the plant and on the factory floor. This is in addition to Windows and industrial technologies like PLCs and includes Linux, iOS and even mobile operating systems such as Android.
Enabling as many devices as possible to interface helps in the progress of IoT.
OPC and IoT:
The important development in OPC development like OPC Unified Architecture creates it platform-independent, thus enabling it to be embedded into devices & making it complete for the IoT use case.
One of the value concepts of OPC UA (Unified Architecture) is its adaptability from Sensor to Cloud. This also enables IoT players to model, data depend on domain-specific like MT connects, BACnet, etc.
The data types that can be represented in OPC are categorized as follows:
Real-time parameter data
Apart from being a common pool for flowing data to cloud app or a third-party app, OPC is also the foundation of any SCADA system wherein a modification in a tag value or command activates change in the status of connected machines.
One concern preferred by IoT is cybersecurity. Stuxnet worm showed that PLCs and other pieces of factory equipment are susceptible to attacks.
Due to manufacturing plants were previously restricted to DCOM, protocols were competing with the difficulty of modern technologies, developing in a higher chance of attainable faults. As OPC UA is constructed from the ground up with cybersecurity in mind, these risks are minimized.
This authorized the attackers to take over the control system, eliminating human-machine interchange components and, finally, safety settings.
Since all ports are closed and the protocol can control generally through virtual private networks (VPNs), OPC UA works absolutely across domains and workgroups. VPNs enhance security by enabling a private network to exist within a larger network such as the internet.
As it allows for the collection of data from many sources, OPC UA can help in data analysis, in addition to minimizing costs for authorizing, staff training, hardware upgrades and system relocation.
Although previous protocols enabled for the industry to progress up to the edge of Industry 4.0, OPC UA is the more suitable protocol for the Industrial Internet of Things. It acts as the combining agent and enables plants to fully execute and acquire the advantage of IoT and Industry 4.0.
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How to Avoid Getting a Snake Bite While Hiking the Foothills
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With the Greenbelt under water, I'm finding myself turning to the trails in the Military Reserve and Harrison Hollow as the areas to train in for my fifth marathon. The trails provide beautiful views of the city...but there's a few things up there I'm terrified of!
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Thing #1? Falling. I did the most epic "Superman" ever when I hit my toe off a rock coming down Sidewinder last year. That was last July and my knee is still purple almost a year later. Everyone asked why I didn't get stitches. Simple answer - my knee looked like ground beef. There was nothing there to stitch back together. This may be TMI, but the wound was open and draining for about a month before it started to scab over.
Thing #2? Snakes! (And sticks that look like snakes if I'm being honest.) I think the last time I actually saw a snake on a run was three years ago, but some of my friends from Team Run Boise and Final Kick events have seen quite a few in the last week alone! Now, I'll be the first to tell you that most snakes you see in the foothill aren't poisonous, but there are rattlesnakes out there.
Bill Bosworth from Idaho Fish and Game shared these tips with the Idaho Statesman on how to protect yourself from snakes in the Foothills.
Watch Where You're Running/Walking
Bosworth explained that most people that suffer snake bites in the Foothills weren't looking at their feet and accidentally stepped on the snake causing it to strike.
Don't Stick Your Hand Where It Doesn't Belong
Snakes like to hangout in holes or crevices to keep cool. Don't stick your hand in one of those. If you surprise the snake, it might bite you.
Dress Smart
This is a lot easier for hikers than it is for us runners, but if you can wear tall boots that reach over your ankles and long/loose fitting pants, it's harder for a snake's bite to penetrate your skin.
Give the Snake Space
When you come up on a snake, let it do it's thing. It's probably looking for food or a mate, not to bite you. If you let it just move along instead of trying to handle it or move it, you automatically reduce the chance of being bitten.
If You Do Get Bitten, Don't Try to DIY
If you are bitten by a snake, don't ice the wound, cut it open or try to suck the venom out yourself. Get to a hospital ASAP and let them do it. Try to get off any jewelry or running watch in case you swell up. Most of the snakes aren't venomous (only the rattlers are), but their bites could cause infections.
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Judge Rakoff Finds that "Embedding" Photos and Videos Online Can Infringe Copyrights, Rejecting "Server Rule"
By Charles Michael on July 30, 2021
In an important copyright ruling today, Judge Rakoff ruled that "embedding" material online — in this case, a news organization embedding in an article a video of a polar bear that the plaintiff posted on Instagram — could violate the copyright laws. He rejected the "server rule" by which there could only be infringement in cases where the defendant makes a copy of the image or video to display from its own server. Under the server rule, merely embedding the material (essentially, displaying the material via the original source) cannot be infringement.
Judge Rakoff found that the server rule was "contrary to the text and legislative history of the Copyright Act":
The Act defines to display as "to show a copy of" a work, 17 U.S.C. § 101, not "to make and then show a copy of the copyrighted work."
[T]he exclusive display right set forth in the Copyright Act is technology-neutral, covering displays made directly or by means of any device or process "now known or later developed." The concept of "display" thus includes "the projection of an image on a screen or other surface by any method, the transmission of an image by electronic or other means, and the showing of an image on a cathode ray tube, or similar viewing apparatus connected with any sort of information storage and retrieval system." H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476, at 64 (1976). The right is concerned not with how a work is shown, but that a work is shown.
Judge Rakoff was not persuaded by concerns that the server rule was necessary to avoid opening the floodgates to litigation:
Proponents of the server rule suggest that a contrary rule would impose far-reaching and ruinous liability, supposedly grinding the internet to a halt. These speculations seem farfetched, but are, in any case, just speculations. Moreover, the alternative provided by the server rule is no more palatable. Under the server rule, a photographer who promotes his work on Instagram or a filmmaker who posts her short film on You Tube surrenders control over how, when, and by whom their work is subsequently shown . . . .
Defendants argue that an author wishing to maintain control over how a work is shown could abstain from sharing the work on social media, pointing out that if [the plaintiff] removed his work from Instagram, the Video would disappear from [their] websites as well. But it cannot be that the Copyright Act grants authors an exclusive right to display their work publicly only if that public is not online.
H/T Alison Frankel
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How Long Beach plans to help residents expunge marijuana misdemeanors and other low-level convictions
With tens of thousands of marijuana-related convictions in California potentially eligible to be overturned following the legalization of recreational pot, Long Beach is launching a program offering residents free legal help clearing low-level criminal convictions.
Dubbed the Restoration Initiative for Safety and Employment — or RISE — the program isn't just for cannabis-related offenses, but will help those eligible expunge a variety of low-level misdemeanors and some felonies, clear minor warrants, enroll in court diversion programs, and even convert unpaid court fines to community service hours, officials said Thursday.
The idea is to reach people who assume convictions they've done time or completed probation for have doomed them from employment opportunities, city leaders said at a press conference with Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.
"Those issues do provide barriers to get into the workplace and we have so many people in our community both young and of all ages that just want another chance to go to work and to be a part of our economy," Mayor Robert Garcia said.
Funded by $200,000 allocated in this year's city budget, the RISE program will feature four "Fresh Start" workshops next year, in addition to year-round help via the City Prosecutor's Office.
City Prosecutor Doug Haubert said Long Beach has offered residents similar help in the past, but now, the District Attorney's Office is on board.
"When the defense and the prosecution agree to clearing someone's record, it's much quicker, much easier and much simpler," he said.
Haubert didn't have a figure for how many Long Beach residents are eligible to have their convictions reduced or expunged, but he said he expects at least 1,000 people will be served in the first year of the program.
Long Beach will expedite the clearing of marijuana-related convictions as early as July 2019, he said.
Robin Perry, of the Long Beach Bar Association, said his organization and the L.A. County Public Defender's office will offer free, in-person legal help at the workshops.
Long Beach is also partnering with community groups, including Centro CHA, the Long Beach Ministers Alliance and Goodwill Industries of Southern California, to reach potential candidates and help them find jobs.
Lacey said the idea is to consider offenders' long term futures and to acknowledge that people change.
"Oftentimes, some of these convictions end up going to warrant because they did not complete the form that says they did their community service or they didn't pay a fine, they let it go," she said. "As soon as people apply for jobs, those things come up. They're embarrassing, but more importantly, they're impediments to people progressing."
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At a historical crossroads, Brazil should embrace change
Posted byGabriel Fritsch	 October 22, 2014 October 22, 2014 Leave a comment on At a historical crossroads, Brazil should embrace change
Thursday, June 20th 2013. We were all there, in presence or in thought, together with the 2 million people in the streets of 22 different cities around Brazil. It was one of the largest public demonstrations in the country's history. In Rio de Janeiro, I was amongst the 300,000 indignant compatriots walking towards the City Hall. For a moment, I lost my friends in the crowd and was alone amidst the mass of people. But I wasn't really. Empathizing with strangers was natural – in a sense it reminded me of a soccer game in Maracanã: regardless of age, profession, economic status or political beliefs, we were there for the same reason – in many ways, we had had it.
The protests weren't about the alleged $0.10 hike in bus fares or about public expenditures in hosting the World Cup. They were the result of perceived failures of the Brazilian government on administrative and ethical levels: the economy had stalled, with inflation hitting the target ceiling; social progress had stagnated; tax burden was excessive for poor public services; and rampant corruption at the highest echelons of government became the means to buy political support. This accumulation led to popular outrage. Increasing the price of public transport or finding money for soccer stadiums instead of health or education was but the last straw.
In 2010, when Dilma Rousseff was elected as President Lula's successor under the ruling Worker's Party (PT), Brazil seemed to be finally fulfilling its role as an emerging global power. Three years later, it was not the case anymore: Lula's model, or Lulismo, deteriorated, and corruption took a toll on the PT's reputation. Now, the situation is even worse. Macroeconomic instability has scared off long-term private investment, a punitive tax system is still hurting the economy, and Petrobras, the state oil company, is being butchered by bribery scandals and fuel price misalignment as a result of misguided anti-inflation policies.
The difference from a year ago, however, is that now the country is faced with a palpable possibility of change. This month's presidential election is the first time in twelve years when the opposition, under Aécio Neves, of the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB), has a real chance of winning. After an unexpected turnaround in the first round on October 5th, polls now indicate that Mr. Neves is taking the lead, even if by a small margin, and might be the winner of the second round run-off between him and Dilma Rousseff. Perhaps it has never been truer to say that the country faces a historical crossroads. On October 26th, Brazilian voters will carry the responsibility of deciding the future of their country. However, it is alarming that many don't recognize this critical situation. The PT's manipulation of public opinion and the fierce personal attacks and smears it uses against its opponents in this election's political debate threaten Neves's potential victory, and are representative of the dangers to democratic freedom that Ms. Rousseff's government imposes.
With the President's reelection slipping away, the Worker's Party has undertaken a campaign driven by electoral terrorism: publicizing lies or half-truths and making baseless accusations to the opposition in order to inflict fear and distrust amongst voters are the common tools used by Mrs. Rousseff. Marina Silva, the third-placed candidate in the first round, fell victim to this strategy, and after leading the opinion polls, received only 21% of the votes in the first ballot some weeks ago.
Now, Mr. Neves is the new target. The ruling party uses its assets of popular gratitude – namely low formal unemployment, higher minimum wages, and the Bolsa Família cash transfers among other social programs – to separate them from the "enemy", caricaturing the opposition in a simplistic and irresponsible manner, which is detrimental to the democratic process. Among other false accusations, the PT incorrectly claims that Mr. Neves will axe the Bolsa Família, scaring poorer and less educated voters who are dependent on such grants. The truth is that Neves has made a public commitment to maintain and expand the program, which itself originated from his party in the 1990s.
When it comes to the real flaws of the Rousseff administration, anything and everything is allowed in denying them. Low economic growth and high inflation, incontestably due to macroeconomic mismanagement, is blamed on the troubled world economy, even if Brazil's Latin American neighbors seem, on average, to be doing considerably better. The government's stock phrase "never before in the history of this country…" is known by heart by any Brazilian. To prove its right doings, the PT undermines the work of previous administrations, cites information with no respect to context, and uses official statistics in opportunistic manners. To justify consistent corruption scandals the President fallaciously states how "never before in the history of this country have corrupt politicians been punished so harshly", as if the state's law enforcement and judiciary institutions were simply an extension of the executive.
Lulismo today is far from its original socialist and populist ideals that elected Lula and the PT in 2002. What we are experiencing now is a system where state capitalism prevails, under the interest of one party that buys parliamentary support and extends favors to voracious corporate insiders and other parties thirsting for power – crony capitalism at its finest. A system where public opinion is undermined and the press treated with hostility: "the press should only publish information, not investigate", said President Rousseff recently. A system which seemingly maintains the formal democratic institutions but gradually distances itself father away from the true meaning of democracy and draws closer to its Venezuelan and Argentinean neighbors. A system that urgently needs change.
It would be naïve to affirm that Mr. Neves is a flawless candidate. However, his proposed policies have the potential of putting Brazil back in the growth track and his political history, and that of his party, makes his discourse convincing. In the 1990s, under former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the PSDB overcame the threat of hyperinflation and laid the foundations for Brazil's recent growth. Mr. Neves's two terms as Governor of Minas Gerais, the country's second most populous state, were an example of competent administration, resulting in more efficient public spending, and the country's best primary education. Mr. Neves wants to push for tax reforms, a reduction of administrative bureaucracy and political reform, including a reduction in the number of ministries and increasing accountability of Congress, along with a sound macroeconomic agenda that aims at recovering stability.
Nevertheless, Neves's policy proposals are of secondary importance compared to what seems to be the main difference between him and the current president: with prudence and determination, Neves has been avidly advocating for what Brazilians started demanding in June 2013, namely, a better country where the government would ensure the fundamental liberties and autonomy of civil society. The political diversity of the alliances and endorsements he has received for the upcoming second round are a testament of his support coming from different parts of the Brazilian society. Aécio Neves's candidacy represents, more than anything, a call for a truly democratic Brazil. In only four days, we will know if his voice will have been heard.
Posted byGabriel Fritsch October 22, 2014 October 22, 2014 Posted inOpinionTags: Aecio Neves, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, election
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Build a Raspberry Pi 0/1 and 2/3/3+ kernel with all kernel modules running Docker.

## Build inputs

### Kernel git commit

In the build script `scripts/compile_kernel.sh` there is a git commit hash to pin the build to this exact commit to make it reproducible.

If you want to build another kernel version, have a look at the upstream repo [https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux](https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux) and check for a good git commit hash and change the line

```bash
LINUX_KERNEL_COMMIT="c8baa9702cc99de9614367d0b96de560944e7ccd"
```

### Kernel configs

In the local directory `kernel_configs/` are two configuration files for Pi 0/1 and Pi 2/3/3+.

* `rpi1_docker_defconfig`
* `rpi2_3_docker_defconfig`

These configuration files are created from an initial `make menuconfig` and activating all kernel modules we need to run docker on the Raspberry Pi.

The differences to the upstream Raspberry Pi kernel is

```
$ diff kernel_configs/rpi1_docker_defconfig /var/kernel_build/cache/linux-kernel/arch/arm/configs/bcmrpi_defconfig
16d15
< CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP=y
18,20d16
< CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH=y
< CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y
< CONFIG_CGROUP_PIDS=y
25d20
< CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF=y
354,355d348
< CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV=y
< CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_PRIO=y
461d453
< CONFIG_IPVLAN=m
```

## Build outputs

### Kernel deb packages

The two relevant kernel deb packages are copied to `build_results/kernel/${KERNEL_DATETIME}/`.

* `kernel-commit.txt`
* `raspberrypi-kernel_${KERNEL_VERSION}_armhf.deb`
* `raspberrypi-kernel-headers_${KERNEL_VERSION}_armhf.deb`

## Build with Vagrant

To build the SD card image locally with Vagrant and VirtualBox, enter

```bash
vagrant up
```

### Recompile kernel

Only on first boot the kernel will be compiled automatically.
If you want to compile again, use these steps:

```bash
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
sudo su
/vagrant/scripts/compile_kernel.sh
```

### Update kernel configs

To update the two kernel config files you can use this steps.

```bash
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
sudo su
MENUCONFIG=1 /vagrant/scripts/compile_kernel.sh
```

This will only call the `make menuconfig` inside the toolchain and copies the updated kernel configs back to `kernel_configs/` folder to be committed to the GitHub repo.

## Test kernel

To test the new kernel, copy all DEB packages to your Pi and login as root.
Then install the following packages:

```bash
dpkg -i raspberrypi-kernel_${KERNEL_DATETIME}_armhf.deb

dpkg -i raspberrypi-kernel-headers_${KERNEL_DATETIME}_armhf.deb
```

Reboot your Pi.


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Karen Weinstein Jan 1, 2012
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Helen Hunt in the Broad Stage production of "Our Town"
Photo courtesy of Broad Stage
'Our Town'
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by David Cromer
Starring Helen Hunt
The Broad Stage, Santa Monica
Through Feb. 12, 2012
We are born, we live, and then we die. There is no escape. It is a universal truth; the only variations are how? And how long? "Our Town" is a blunt confrontation with the ordinariness of the universal trajectory. Simply stated, Act I is entitled Daily Life; Act II is Love/Marriage; Act III is Death/Loss. That is it in stark simplicity. Avant-garde when Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938, it is often presented as a somewhat sentimental/philosophical homage to times past — times that were presumably more simple. As such, most days one can find a straightforward production of "Our Town" somewhere in the United States by some sort of company from professional, to community, to high school drama group. Chances are you have experienced at least one performance before. Probably more.
So why all the fuss about this production and why should you entertain getting tickets? Without a doubt, first and foremost there is Helen Hunt. She brings a refreshingly real, no-nonsense, non-sentimental approach to the role of the stage manager. Hers is not bathed in nostalgia nor viewed through a Vaseline-coated lens. After seeing Hunt, it would be hard to imagine going to see "Our Town" once again with some guy in a cardigan playing Stage Manager, perched on a stool at the corner of the stage, and looking on with a benevolent gaze. She has a job to do, and do it with force she does. The role is in stark contrast to the very conventional woman-at-home roles of the hardworking Mrs. Gibbs or Mrs. Webb.
Conceived and directed by 2010 MacArthur Fellow David Cromer, this production has arrived in Santa Monica after very successful runs in Chicago and New York, where Cromer himself played the role of Stage Manager. You could say it is a naked production: No stage sets with New England saltboxes dotting the horizon. No props except for The Webbs' house, which is suggested by one kitchen, table, Doc Gibbs' by another downstage. Costumes do not define time. There is nothing precious about it. You are born, you live, you die. For the most part Cromer's approach brings Grover's Corners to life and is much more meaningful for current audiences. I suspect Wilder would approve. It only strays when actors are left to perform elaborate and distracting pantomimes, such as Mrs. Gibbs' fussy and nonsensical bustling in her kitchen.
Spatially, Cromer's concept is that the production should conform itself to the area available and that the area can be manipulated to suit the production. By this sleight-of-hand, the Broad's more conventional proscenium has been completely revamped by building a false floor above the existing Broad stage and ground floor seating. Seats are on bleachers in an elongated U. You read that right; this is theater in the U, not the round. Most of the action takes place on the very long (90 feet, more or less), very narrow, center space (think single bowling alley proportions), bordered by banks of seats, which also have gaps through which some of the action flows. The Broad's seating capacity is reduced by upwards of 200. The theaters were considerably smaller in Chicago and New York, and I suspect the configuration worked better. Regarding this detail of the staging, it is a case of new, for the sake of new, and is not necessarily better. With the exception of Hunt — her Shakespeare training evident — not all actors were equally audible from all parts of the stage to all locations in the audience.
Given a choice, I would have preferred seeing Cromer's staging in a considerably smaller venue, but one cannot always choose. This is an "Our Town" for our times; there is no escaping its essential truth: you are born, you live, you die. One moral might be, "make the most of it."
Karen Weinstein Los Angeles ,
Weinstein is a clinical psychologist who teaches in the medical school at UCLA. She also holds a master's degree in Urban Studies and has a strong interest in history and architecture, as well as the theater.
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Our Town, NY Harvey O'Brien
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Joanna G. Harris
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The Revenge of a "Worst Order" Racist
March 17, 2014 southcapenetRegular Columns
It is intriguing — and difficult — to predict which issues will seize the media's imagination. It is often even more surprising to see which issues are neglected or ignored.
Two weeks ago — before the Oscar Trial began — Western Cape papers were full of the controversy about Cape Town's new logo. As the Cape Argus noted at the time, "thousands of Capetonians discovered for the first time that their city [had] a logo" — only when a "new one" was leaked on social media. [For the record, the design cost involved was R314,000 — not the R8-million that was widely reported. And the logo will be phased in during the normal course of maintenance and printing, requiring no additional budget.]
At the same time a genuinely significant story was breaking behind the scenes. It went almost unnoticed despite the fact that it will have a devastating impact on the lives of the majority of residents of the province for decades to come. And the same applies in the Northern Cape and KwaZulu Natal. The whole of South Africa, in fact.
When historians look back, they will identify this almost unnoticed development as the moment when Verwoerdian racial engineering returned to South Africa, with a vengeance, as official government policy in a democratic South Africa.
The "story" I am referring to are the regulations, issued at the end of February by Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant, in terms of the Employment Equity Amendment Act.
These regulations require that companies that employ more than 150 people use the demographics of the "national economically active population" to fill positions in the three upper levels (top and senior management and professionally qualified) and an average of national and regional demographics for the three lower levels (skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled technical) when determining employment equity targets.
This means that, although coloured people in the Western Cape make up 49% of the population, they may only comprise 9% of professional and senior staff levels in any enterprise or institution. And the same applies to the Northern Cape, where coloured people constitute 40% of the population.
In KZN, where Indians make up 7% of the demographic profile, they should not be represented in a proportion of more than 2,5% in the top three levels of any enterprise.
Doing a calculation for the Western Cape government, I concluded that no coloured person in our administration would be able to get a promotion into management for the next 15 years (at least). Neither would the Western Cape government be able to appoint any coloured or white professionals. And we would have to appoint at least 22 "demographically representative" senior employees before we could appoint the first Indian.
These regulations deliver the following message to hard-working, qualified, committed people who happen not to be black Africans: No matter how hard you work, no matter how much value you add, you are doomed by your colour. You cannot rise above a certain level because of your race. Demography is Destiny.
Verwoerd must be dancing with delight in his grave. And the Verwoerdian of the "new" South Africa, Jimmy Manyi, has been vindicated in his insistence that "there is an over-concentration of coloured people in the Western Cape". Speaking in a television interview in his capacity as government spokesman in 2011, he advised coloured people to move elsewhere if they wanted career opportunities.
Trevor Manuel, Minister in the Presidency at the time, called Manyi a "worst order racist" whose views did not reflect government policy.
But Manyi protested: "I only articulate the government's view".
These regulations show that Manyi was right. Manuel has now taken leave of politics. And Manyi has just secured a prestigious appointment as Parliament's representative on the Media Development and Diversity Agency, no less.
We can now expect him to promote the policies of "worst order racism" in the media space. And he will refer to these regulations to show that he is merely articulating the view of a government that has come to represent "worst order" racists.
Apologists for the new regulations will be quick to point out that they have been issued "as a guide". But we know that the guide will become the rule in ANC-governed provinces, which need no encouragement to extend the "cadre deployment policy" for politically-connected individuals. Now they can tighten their control behind the convenient smokescreen of complying with government regulations.
They have already shown that they are determined to do so. We remember the landmark court challenge of police officer Jemilla Pillay, brought on her behalf by the trade union, Solidarity, after she was told that she did not qualify for a promotion because of her race and her gender.
In a classic explanation of how state institutions apply "employment equity" the SAPS explained in court how they calculate the race and gender allocation of positions:
"19 positions on level 14 are multiplied by the national demographic figure for a specific race group eg 19 positions x 79% Africans = 15 of the 19 posts must be filled by Africans, then 15 x 70% = 11 positions to be filled by African males minus the current status of seven meaning there is a shortage of four African males.
[44] For Indian females the calculation is 19 x 2, 5% = 0, 5 positions to be filled by Indians, then 0, 5 x 30% = 0, 1 Indian females and that is rounded off to zero. Of the five available positions 0,125 could go to Indians x 30% gender allocation means 0.037 could be allocated to Indian females and that is rounded to zero.
[45] Indian females on level 14 were ideal because there was none and the ideal was zero. There was one Indian male on level 14 but there ought to be none, whether male or female as the ideal for Gauteng was zero and no Indian could be appointed."
The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled this approach unconstitutional. But instead of accepting the court's ruling, SAPS has appealed against it, showing how determined the national government is to enforce rigid racial quotas. The latest regulations merely underscore this determination.
But what about the Western Cape where the DA governs? We will continue to implement rational employment equity policies, but we will certainly oppose racial quotas in every way possible. We will continue ensuring that every hard-working, dedicated and qualified individual has a fair chance to build their career. And we will continue pursuing effective and fair employment equity to redress the wrongs of the past. But we will have nothing to do with the lunacy revealed in the SAPS case and reinforced by the new regulations.
But, as with all things in government, it is not so simple.
Firstly, the law states that every employer of 50 or more people MUST implement affirmative action measures to achieve "equitable representation in all occupational levels in the workforce". The regulations show how the national government will measure "equitable representation" — on the basis of national demographics, irrespective of regional population ratios. And they will do the calculation, just like the SAPS, on the basis of quotas.
Any employer of more than 50 people MUST draw up a plan designed to achieve "equitable representation" within a time frame. And an employer MUST report annually on progress towards achieving the targets set. And the employer MUST assign one or more senior managers to ensure implementation and monitoring of the employment equity plan and MUST make available the necessary resources for this purpose. The employer will then be subjected to scrutiny and monitoring of labour unions, of labour inspectors and a review from the Director General to make sure they are complying with the Act. If they are found wanting, the Labour Court can make "any appropriate orders, award compensation of impose fines".
And perhaps most coercive of all, if any company wishes to qualify to do business with any organ of state they will have to seek a certificate from the Minister confirming their compliance with the Act.
In this way, what is innocently presented as a "guideline" very soon becomes a quota. It will certainly be interpreted as such for the purposes of accessing government business. Another fine fig-leaf for ensuring that tenders and contracts go to the politically connected.
This once again reflects the gross contradiction between what Jacob Zuma's ANC says — and what it does.
At a time of growing unemployment and poverty, nothing could be more calculated to kill economic growth and jobs than this law, and particularly the new draft regulations issued by the Minister. The ANC has been particularly devious in seeking to disguise its intention in the principal Act, while sneaking its Verwoerdian ambitions into the regulations. If anything has vindicated my insistence that the DA withdraw its support for the principal Act, it is these horrific regulations.
So, to quote a famous phrase: What is to be done?
The Constitutional Court hearing in the Jemilla Naidoo case on Thursday will be pivotal, and far more important to SA's future than the Oscar Pistorius trial.
It will give clear direction on the highest Court's interpretation of the Constitution in relation to "employment equity".
The Western Cape government has sought Senior Counsel opinion on these regulations, and we will resist their imposition, till the highest court if necessary.
In the DA we will continue to expose the decline of a once honourable organisation into a racist oligarchy, whose leaders prey on the poor to feed themselves.
Voters will one day confront this reality. Let's hope enough of them do by 7 May.
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